Shogun (1980)★ 8.1/10
- Adventure
- Drama
- History
- War
Directed by: Jerry London
Written by: Eric Bercovici, James Clavell
An English sea captain becomes a samurai in 17th-century Japan.
- Original title
- Shogun
- Storyline
- Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain), an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked upon the Japanese coast in the early seventeenth century is forced to deal with the two most powerful men in Japan in these days. He is thrown in the midst of a war between Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Toshirô Mifune) and Ishido (Nobuo Kaneko), who struggle for the title of "Shogun", which will give ultimate power to the one who possesses it.
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 17,962
- Companies
- Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Jardine Matheson Co. Ltd., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Television, Toho, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cinema International Corporation (CIC), Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO), MTV3, Paramount Films of India, Saeta TV Canal 10, TF1, Paramount Home Entertainment, Finnkino, Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment, SF Film Finland, Esselte Video
- Release dates
- CA September 15, 1980
- US September 15, 1980
- JP November 8, 1980
- BE September 11, 1982
- XWG October 2, 1982
- AU October 19, 1982
- GB November 20, 1982
- NL October 20, 1983
- FI November 2, 1983
- SE January 20, 1984
- NO June 30, 1984
- PL January 1, 1985
- HU May 15, 1987
- IT June 20, 2013
- SG April 21, 2021